Definition of Ichthyornis. Meaning of Ichthyornis. Synonyms of Ichthyornis

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Definition of Ichthyornis

Ichthyornis
Ichthyornis Ich`thy*or"nis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, a fish + ? bird.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of toothed birds found in the American Cretaceous formation. It is remarkable for having biconcave vertebr[ae], and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotorm[ae].

Meaning of Ichthyornis from wikipedia

- million years ago. Ichthyornis is a common component of the Niobrara Formation fauna, and numerous specimens have been found. Ichthyornis has been historically...
- group that includes modern birds and their very close relatives such as Ichthyornis and the hesperornithines. This clade is defined in the PhyloCode by Juan...
- to the group's namesake, Ichthyornis. However, these seem to have been more closely related to modern birds than to Ichthyornis dispar. In Julia Clarke's...
- Its type species was originally classified as Ichthyornis celer. A. celer was long allied with Ichthyornis, having been ****igned to Ichthyornidae by Marsh...
- It is known from several aquatic amniotes: ichthyosaurs, Hesperornis, Ichthyornis, juvenile caimans, some cetaceans and even some ctenochasmatoid pterosaurs...
- Hesperornis than to Baptornis. Hesperornitheans were originally combined with Ichthyornis in the paraphyletic group "Odontornithes" by Othniel Charles Marsh, in...
- Confuciusornis, a genus of crow-sized birds from the Early Cretaceous Ichthyornis was a toothed, seabird-like ornithuran from the Late Cretaceous Rhynchocephalians...
- as lobed toes for this group. Like many other Mesozoic birds such as Ichthyornis, Hesperornis had teeth as well as a beak. In the hesperornithiform lineage...
- steering rather than flight; and the tern-like Ichthyornis, an early avian with a toothy beak. Ichthyornis shared the sky with large pterosaurs such as...
- and diving species. The latter included the superficially gull-like Ichthyornis and the Hesperornithiformes, which became so well adapted to hunting...